Strange Eating Habits

[ingmansinc]

My wife and I went out for dinner last evening at a local buffet. While we were eating a man in his late sixties sat down at the table next to ours. He went to the buffet and got a dinner plate stacked with chocolate cookies, eight bowls of soup, a dinner plate full of cherry tomatoes and green pepper slices/no dressing, a glass of tea, and a glass of water. Then he sat down and starting eating. This was the strangest thing that I ever witness and there were a lot of folks taking a second look. Our waitress said he does this ever day. I don't care what this man eats or how much he eats, it was just funny watching him going back and forth from the food counter with all that soup. I would have thought he would have gotten more as he consumed each bowl. It would have stayed warmer. I'll also bet there were fifteen or twenty cookies on that plate. He was a normal sized fellow about 6 ft. tall.

 

[Forester]

I remember as a kid, watching one of the old Candid Camera episodes of them filming people at a KFC, I believe it was. Some people finishes all of one item before trying another. Some took alternating bites of each thing in order every time. Some at with their fingers, and some with utensils even when it was absurd not to pick it up with your fingers and out it in your mouth.

I went to a potluck dinner at our local shooting club last winter. Great foodstuff of all varieties. I sure chowed done with a little of everything. A woman sitting next to me (who I know to be a very good and competitive shooter) brought her own container of marinated, sliced mushrooms. That's all she ate. At a pot luck! I am talking like two pounds of sliced mushrooms.

 

[pharmer]

I am talking like two pounds of sliced mushrooms.

She might have been a "greenie" and planning to power her wind farm with the gas. Joe

 

[K.38]

Years ago I was at 29 Palms, Ca for MOS training and one of my fellow classmates ate nothing but Snickers bars and Dr Pepper. We were there for 6 or 8 weeks and that is all he ate. He was one strange dude anyway I always wondered if he made it once he got to his Duty Station or if he got booted.

 

[USAF385]

I have a strange.. perhaps bad eating habit I picked up during basic training and again at SERE school which I have to make a conscious effort to avoid...

Inhaling my food at a ridiculously fast rate...

I get comments all the time about it. Just last night my girlfriend and I sat down to eat. No word of lie, I was done with my first plate and going for a second helping before she had time to salt her food and take a few bites.

I don't mind though. It means more food for me!

 

[m1gunner]

I have a strange.. perhaps bad eating habit I picked up during basic training and again at SERE school which I have to make a conscious effort to avoid...

Inhaling my food at a ridiculously fast rate...

I get comments all the time about it. Just last night my girlfriend and I sat down to eat. No word of lie, I was done with my first plate and going for a second helping before she had time to salt her food and take a few bites.

I don't mind though. It means more food for me!

If you drink alcohol, your eating speed could kill you. It leads to choking. Saw it first hand, it happened quickly, and the victim was unaware of what was happening, he just blacked out. He wasn't hammered, either, just been drinking.

 

[USAF385]

If you drink alcohol, your eating speed could kill you. It leads to choking. Saw it first hand, it happened quickly, and the victim was unaware of what was happening, he just blacked out. He wasn't hammered, either, just been drinking.

Weird! I usually catch myself and stop eventually though. I don't drink too much while eating either. It's a good reason though for me to keep trying to kick the habit.

 

[GatorFarmer]

People at a buffet in Reno stared at me for taking nine pieces of pie at once. I like pie.

When my wife and I were first together, I think a day or so before we got married, I ate an entire apple pie in about 20 minutes. I then collapsed into bed. My wife tried to be affectionate and say that she loved me, etc. I kept mumbling and groaning and said, "I know, I know, now leave me alone". She didn't realize until I explained later that it was just pie poisoning.

Two nights ago I ate an entire stick of butter as a snack. Butter is good. I also like to frost things with butter.

Then there was the time that a friend and I sat down to eat (between us) two and a half pounds of thick sliced bacon.

By far the best meals that I ever had though were when my friend Dan and I used to BBQ in the winter. He was broke, so only had one light bulb working and we had to burn free newspapers and parts of his Christmas tree for heat. I couldn't cook very well, still can't, but liked to eat, so I'd bring over inch and a half thick two and a half pounds per Porterhouse steaks. We'd eat one of those each, a pile of fries, some garlic bread, and then usually split an entire pie for dessert. If it isn't at least 5000 calories, it just isn't a meal.

For all that, I still only weigh 180ish at 6ft 1 and never really got any heavier. Shrug.

 

[ingmansinc]

Now what gator forgot to mention is that 180ish is per leg, then add in the arms and torso it becomes 620ish.

 

[Bailey Boat]

I once had a guy that worked for me and whenever he was eating he couldn't stand for any of his food to touch when on the plate. It was funny just watching him keep it seperated with his fork.....

 

[NCTexan]

For all that, I still only weigh 180ish at 6ft 1 and never really got any heavier. Shrug.

Gatorfarmer... maybe this would help.

 

[Capt Steve]

Buffets are one of my favorite people watching venues. Vegas is always a hoot but any buffet will do. The ones that make me laugh the most are the folks who just have no concept of the word "Buffet". You know the ones I mean....they pile their plates, as in usually more than one, four or five inches high with twenty seven different selections, Newsflash: Hey folks, you can go back as many times as you want! What part of "Buffet" don't you understand??? The fact that most of these people are morbidly obese comes as no surprise.

 

[jeepjeepwhat]

training? What kind of training? Comepetive eating training Sir!

sounds like a training regiment for competitive eating.

Nathan's just held their hot dog eating contest on July 4th. USA contender Joey Chestnut beat the famous Kobayashi. Of course the contest was held at Coney Island.

 

[onebadscrambler]

Years ago I was at 29 Palms, Ca for MOS training and one of my fellow classmates ate nothing but Snickers bars and Dr Pepper. We were there for 6 or 8 weeks and that is all he ate. He was one strange dude anyway I always wondered if he made it once he got to his Duty Station or if he got booted.

I was not there for MOS, but was TAD to the EAP lot. During my Marine Corps enlistment(91-95), I bet I consumed more peanut M&M's and Dr Pepper than most people consume in their lifetime. I still eat the peanut M&M's a pound a month or so, but now it is Cherry Coke.

 

[feralmerril]

We had a guy on our dept that got wider than he was tall. One of the boys got him a custom T-shirt that said, "I beat anerexia", took him to the smorgasboard and watched the fun!

 

[bk43]

Buffets are one of my favorite people watching venues. Vegas is always a hoot but any buffet will do.

Atlantic City is great too. We watched two big ole' gals stuff themselves and then their pockets before leaving. When we asked the waitress she said they come in and do it all the time. The staff just ignores it because they're frequent players. Fun to watch.

Bob